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Hi! My name is Beth and I live in the Triangle area of North Carolina, USA. I love to read but never seem to have enough time between work, grad school, and family. In an effort to keep up with my reading, I post to a book review blog, http://www.bookstasted.com. I look forward to discussing books with y'all on these forums!

Welcome. I've read the Octavia Butler book Parable of the Sower, that you mention on your blog, and enjoyed it enough to pick it up again years later. It's currently occuping one of the prime spots on my No. 1 bookshelf and could very well be picked up next after Tolstoy is finished.

_________________The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? - Jeremy Bentham

As for this Neil Gaiman guy, one day I find out he's married Amanda Palmer, and overnight it seems every other reader likes him and I'm playing catch-up with the latest cultural phenomenon.

LOL. I've liked Neil Gaiman for a long time, and this Amanda Palmer thing was a surprise to me, (1) because he used to be married to someone else and (2) I had no idea who Amanda Palmer is. Did that really make him more popular?

LOL. I've liked Neil Gaiman for a long time, and this Amanda Palmer thing was a surprise to me, (1) because he used to be married to someone else and (2) I had no idea who Amanda Palmer is. Did that really make him more popular?

I left a lot of room for misinterpretation in my post. I'm sure more people have learned of Palmer through Gaiman than vice versa. My own first encounter with Gaiman was atypical(i.e. via the Dresden Dolls frontwoman), and sums up how out of the loop I am regarding his work.

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